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BC: DEPARTED | AUSTRALIA | 2 FEB 2012

FC: MARK TWAIN NOMINEES 2012-2013

1: TWENTY GOLD FALCONS TWELVE-YEAR-OLD AIDEN IS VERY UNHAPPY WHEN, AFTER HER FATHER'S DEATH, HER MOTHER MOVED THEM FROM THE FAMILY FARM, BUT SOON SHE AND NEW FRIENDS ARE CAUGHT UP IN A SEARCH FOR GOLD COINS IN THE TOWERS THAT LOOM OVER THE CITY OF GLORIA.

3: WITH TWO ATTORNEYS FOR PARENTS, THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD THEODORE BOONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE LAW THAN MOST LAWYERS DO. BUT WHEN A HIGH PROFILE MURDER TRIAL COMES TO HIS SMALL TOWN AND THEO GETS PULLED INTO IT, IT'S UP TO THIS AMATEUR ATTORNEY TO SAVE THE DAY.

5: PALACE BEAUTIFUL SARAH DEFORD WILLIAMS AFTER HER MOVE IN 1985 TO SALT LAKE CITY, THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD SADIE FINDS A JOURNAL IN A HIDEY-HOLE IN THE ATTIC, AND ALONG WITH HER SISTER AND NEW FRIEND SHE READS ABOUT THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC OF 1918.

7: OUT OF MY MIND SHARON DRAPER CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE MENTALLY RETARDED, A BRILLIANT, IMPATIENT FIFTH-GRADER WITH CEREBRAL PALSY DISCOVERS A TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICE THAT WILL ALLOW HER TO SPEAK FOR THE FIRST TIME.

8: SEVEN FIFTH-GRADERS AT SNOW HILL SCHOOL IN CONNECTICUT RLATE HOW THEIR LIVES AE CHANGED FOR THE BETTER BY "ROOKIE TEACHER" MR. TERUPT.

9: IN THE REMOTE MOUNTAINS OF ARIZONA WHERE HE LIVES WITH HIS MOTHER, STEPFATHER, AND TWO SISTERS, 14 YEAR-OLD CHASE DISCOVERS 2 KIDNAPPED BOYS & GETS CAUGHT UP IN A DANGEROUS ADVENTURE TO RESCUE THEM

10: IN THE VILLAGE OF GIANT'S HAND JACK'S GRANDFATHER HAS BEEN PUSHING HIM TO FIND A PRINCESS TO WED. WHEN A YOUNG LADY FALLS OUT OF THE SKY WEARING A SHIRT THAT SAYS "PUNK PRINCESS," AND SHE TELLS JACK THAT HER GRANDMOTHER, WHO LOOKS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE THE LONG-MISSING SNOW WHITE, HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED. JACK DECIDESTO HELP HER.

13: FROM LAST YEAR'S WINNER 6TH GRADER RUSTY, DETERMINED TO HELP AN INJURED DOG THAT IS CHAINED OUTDOORS IN FRIGID WEATHER, CALLS ANIMAL CONTROL THEN TAKES MATTERS INTO HIS OWN HAND, AIDED BY HIS BEST FRIEND AND A GHOST COLLIE THAT LEADS RUSTY TO AN EVEN DEEPER SECRET.

15: BY ADAM EPSTEIN IS THE KINGDOM'S FATE INTHE HANDS OF AN ORPHAN CAT? RUNNING TO SAVE HIS LIFE, ALDWYN DUCKS INTO AN UNUSUAL PET STORE. MOMENTS LATER JACK, A YOUNG WIZARD IN TRAINING, COMES IN TO CHOOSE A MAGICAL ANIMAL TO BE HIS FAMILIAR. ALDWYN'S ALWAYS BEEN CLEVER. BUT MAGICAL? JACKS THINKS SO AND ALDWYN IS HAPPY TO PLAY ALONG. HE JUST HAS TO CONVINCE THE OTHER FAMILIARS-THE KNOW-IT-ALL BLUE JAY SKYLAR & THE FRIENDLY TREE FROG GILBERT-THAT HE IS THE POWERFUL CAT HE CLAIMS TO BE.

16: WHEN A DROUGHT THREATENS HER FAMILYS MAGICAL RHUBARB FARM, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD POLLY TRIES TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE IT RAIN AGAIN.

19: AS MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES BRING GIUSEPPE, FREDERICK AND HANNAH TOGETHER, THEIR LIVES SOON INTERLOCK LIKE THE TURNING GEARS IN A CLOCK AND THEY REALIZE THAT EACH ONE HOLDS A KEY TO SOLVING THE OTHERS' MYSTERIES